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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasonedr with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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Mark 9:50• ⁵⁰Salt is good, but if the salt have become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. (Mark 9:50)

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Col. 3:16• ¹⁶Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to God. (Col. 3:16)

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Deut. 6:6‑7• ⁶And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart.
⁷And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, {i}and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.{/i} (Deut. 6:6‑7)

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Deut. 11:19• ¹⁹{i}And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;{/i} (Deut. 11:19)

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1 Chron. 16:24• ²⁴{i}Declare his glory among the nations,{HR}His wondrous works among all peoples.{HR}{/i} (1 Chron. 16:24)

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Psa. 37:30‑31• ³⁰The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom{HR}And his tongue speaketh justice.
³¹The law of his God [is] in his heart;{HR}None of his steps slip. (Psa. 37:30‑31)

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Psa. 40:9‑10• ⁹I have announced righteousness in the great congregation;{HR}Behold, I will not refrain my lips; O Jehovah, thou hast known.
¹⁰Thy righteousness I hid not in the midst of my heart;{HR}Thy faithfulness and thy salvation I declared;{HR}I concealed not thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation. (Psa. 40:9‑10)

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Psa. 45:2• ²Thou hast been very fair above the sons of men;{HR}Grace hath been poured into thy lips;{HR}Therefore God hath blessed thee forever. (Psa. 45:2)

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Psa. 66:16• ¹⁶Come, hear, all ye that fear God,{HR}And I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. (Psa. 66:16)

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Psa. 71:15‑18,23‑24• ¹⁵My mouth shall declare thy righteousness,{HR}All the day thy salvation;{HR}For I know not its numbers.
¹⁶I will go in the might of Adonai Jehovah;{HR}I will recall thy righteousness, thine only.
¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth,{HR}And hitherto do I show thy wondrous works.
¹⁸Yea also unto old age and grey hairs,{HR}O God, forsake me not,{HR}Until I declare, thine arm to a generation,{HR}Thy might to every one that is to come.
²³My lips shall exult when I sing praises to thee;{HR}And my soul which thou hast redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day;{HR}For they shall be ashamed,{HR}For they shall be confounded,{HR}That seek evil to me. (Psa. 71:15‑18,23‑24)

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Psa. 78:3‑4• ³Which we have heard and known,{HR}And our fathers have told us.
⁴We will not hide [them] from their sons,{HR}Telling the generations to come the praises of Jehovah,{HR}And his strength, and his wondrous works which he wrought. (Psa. 78:3‑4)

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Psa. 105:2• ²Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him;{HR}Talk of all his wondrous works. (Psa. 105:2)

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Psa. 119:13,46• ¹³With my lips have I declared{HR}All the judgments of thy mouth.
⁴⁶And I will speak of thy testimonies before kings,{HR}And will not be ashamed. (Psa. 119:13,46)

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Prov. 10:21• ²¹The lips of the righteous feed many;{HR}But fools die for want of understanding. (Prov. 10:21)

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Prov. 15:4,7• ⁴The healing of the tongue [is] a tree of life;{HR}But perverseness therein [is] a breaking of the spirit.
⁷The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,{HR}But not so the heart of the foolish. (Prov. 15:4,7)

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Prov. 16:21‑24• ²¹The wise in heart is called intelligent,{HR}And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
²²Wisdom [is] a fountain of life for him that hath it;{HR}But the instruction of fools [is] folly.
²³The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth,{HR}And addeth learning to his lips.
²⁴Pleasant words [are as] a honey-comb,{HR}Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Prov. 16:21‑24)

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Prov. 22:17‑18• ¹⁷Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,{HR}And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
¹⁸For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee:{HR}They shall be together fitted to thy lips. (Prov. 22:17‑18)

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Prov. 25:11‑12• ¹¹Apples of gold in baskets of silver{HR}[Is] a word spoken in season.
¹²An ear-ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold{HR}[Is] a wise reprover on an attentive ear. (Prov. 25:11‑12)

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Eccl. 10:12• ¹²The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious,{HR}But the lips of a fool swallow him up. (Eccl. 10:12)

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Mal. 3:16‑18• ¹⁶Then they that feared Jehovah spake often one to another: and Jehovah hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written {i}before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.{/i}
¹⁷And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Mal. 3:16‑18)

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Matt. 12:34‑35• ³⁴{i}Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.{/i}
³⁵{i}The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.{/i} (Matt. 12:34‑35)

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Luke 4:22• ²²{i}And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said,{/i} Is not this the son of Joseph? (Luke 4:22)

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Eph. 4:29• ²⁹Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but if [there be] anyone good for edification of the need, that it may give grace to those that hear. (Eph. 4:29)

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Lev. 2:13• ¹³And every offering of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. (Lev. 2:13)

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2 Kings 2:20‑22• ²⁰And he said, Bring me a new cruise and put salt therein. {i}And they brought it to him{/i}.
²¹And he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in there and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more dearth or barren land.
²²So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. (2 Kings 2:20‑22)

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Matt. 5:13• ¹³Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing save to be cast out and to be trodden down by men. (Matt. 5:13)

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Mark 9:50• ⁵⁰Salt is good, but if the salt have become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. (Mark 9:50)

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Prov. 26:4‑5• ⁴Answer not a fool according to his folly,{HR}Lest thou also be like him.
⁵Answer a fool according to his folly,{HR}Lest he be wise in his own eyes. (Prov. 26:4‑5)

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Luke 20:20‑40• ²⁰And having watched [him] they sent suborned persons pretending to be righteous that they might lay hold of his language so as to deliver him to the power and the authority of the governor .
²¹And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou rightly sayest and teachest and acceptest no [man's] person, but in truth teachest the way of God.
²²Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?
²³But perceiving their deceit he said to them,
²⁴Show me a denarius. Whose image and title has it? And answering they said, Caesar's.
²⁵And he said to them, Therefore render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.
²⁶And they were not able to lay hold of his word before the people, and wondering at his answer were silent.
²⁷And some of the Sadducees who deny that there is any resurrection came up, and demanded of him,
²⁸saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone's brother having a wife die and he be childless, that his brother take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.
²⁹There were then seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless;
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³¹and the third, took her; and likewise also the seven left no children and died;
³²and lastly the woman died.
³³In the resurrection therefore, of which of them does the woman become wife? For the seven had her as wife.
³⁴And Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;
³⁵but those deemed worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from among [the] dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
³⁶for they can die no more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
³⁷But that the dead rise even Moses showed [in the section] on the bush when he called Jehovah the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.
³⁸But he is not God of dead but of living, for all live to him.
³⁹And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well said.
⁴⁰For they did not dare any more to ask him anything. (Luke 20:20‑40)

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1 Peter 3:15• ¹⁵but sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, ready always for answer to everyone that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear, (1 Peter 3:15)

• Our speech ought always to be the expression of this separation from evil, this power of the presence of God which keeps us inwardly apart from it. (“Colossians 4” by J.N. Darby)

• We should always conduct ourselves in a gracious, courteous, and kindly manner in all our interactions with the men of the world. This will work to win them for Christ. But our speech should also be “seasoned with salt.” This speaks of faithfulness. (“Christ Expressed in the Spread of the Truth in the World: Colossians 4:2-6” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

W. Kelly Translation

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Let your speech be always in grace, seasoned with salt, to know how ye must answer each one.